Chapter I General provisions
England and Wales
- Meaning of “custodial sentence”
- Liability to imprisonment on conviction on indictment
- General limit on magistrates’ courts’ powers
- General restrictions on discretionary custodial sentences
- Procedural requirements for imposing discretionary custodial sentences
- Life sentences
- Other restrictions
- Sexual and violent offences: licences etc.
- Crediting of periods of remand in custody